Success Imprinter

Abstract

It is difficult to control one's mental preparedness in important situations such as sports performances. We propose Success Imprinter, a new mental control system that enables users to strengthen their mental preparedness simply by presenting information. With Success Imprinter, users can strengthen their mental preparedness more easily than by using the previous methods. We utilize the concept of conditioning, which is a learning principle. Our system presents users with a stimulus, which is presented upon the success of their performance repeatedly, to strengthen their mental preparedness. An evaluation confirmed that Success Imprinter has a consistent effect on user's mental preparedness and results of darts competition although its effect was different for each user. Moreover, we discuss a method to identify the effect on each user on the basis of their individual characteristics. From these results, we implemented a prototype that presents conditioned information automatically.